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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Places of Deaths, 1950 to 1962
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:30:22 -0500


Hello,

I have 2 families on my family-tree, different sides, and I have a relative
of each great-grandparent who either died in MA in 1962, or assumedly died
in the 1950's in MA. And I'd like to ask if there is a way to find out
which town or city they died in -- without driving to Boston, or without
writing to the Soc. Sec. Admin. Office.

Carleton HUTCHINSON, born Mar. 1870 MA, died in Aug. 1962. The SSDI does
not offer any information on a town or city in MA where he either resided or
died.

Joseph KERR, born ~1863 Canada / P.Q., lived in MA, from 1880's lived in WA
from 1901, probably died in MA during 1950's. The obituary for Robert,
his brother in WA in 1950, stated that Joseph was then in MA. He would
have been in his late 80's at the time.

I was reminded this week that the information on deaths at the SSDI doesn't
start until 1962. (I used the SSDI at www.familysearch.org )

(Both of my grandfathers died almost exactly one year from each other in
Nov. 1960 and Nov. 1961, and neither come up in the SSDI.)

I'm hoping answers to this question will help other researchers who are
looking for death information from the 1950's and 1960's.

Betty (near Lowell, MA)


(The information mentioned comes from my on-line research.)












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